IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards Winners Announced
Attendance at the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 event reached almost 700 people from 22 countries. The event hosted the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards to recognize outstanding achievement. Dynamic–EMS Debuts at Southern Manufacturing
Independent contract manufacturing services provider, Dynamic-EMS, today announced that it will be exhibiting at Southern Manufacturing ’09 for the first time, following a year of sustained growth. The event, to be held at FIVE, Farnborough, Hampshire, in February, will be Dynamic-EMS’ first UK based exhibition. HARTING grows - Successful 2007/2008 business year
The HARTING Technology Group, headquartered in Espelkamp, in East Westphalia, Germany, has once again concluded a very successful business year on September 30, 2008. The company succeeded in advancing sales from EUR 345 million in the prior year to a total of EUR 385 million, representing sales gains of 11.7%. Laminar Batteries - Missing the Big Opportunity? By Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx
Coin cells, otherwise known as button batteries, are a huge success. Whether it is for 100 million talking gift cards or 50 million car key remotes every year, the choice is coin cells. They are the favoured power source for active RFID tags, hearing aids, wristwatches, calculators and a great deal besides. Even where a thinner battery is needed and footprint is not a constraint, the choice is usually coin cells not the laminar batteries made by an increasing number of businesses. Atium appoints Triacon Scientific as new reseller in Sweden
Altium has chosen Triacon Scientific to be its channel partner for Sweden. Triacon Scientific is the third reseller appointed in Europe in three months and signifies growing regional demand for Altium’s next-generation electronics design solutions. 
Schroff products conform to new IEC standard for 1U chassis
Electronics packaging specialist Schroff has announced that the 1U versions of its multipacPRO chassis and CompactPCI and VME64x systems all conform to the new IEC 60297-3-105 standard for 1U-high 19in. chassis. Avnet Memec offers Luminary Micro’s Brushed DC Motor Controller Module and Reference Design Kit
Avnet Memec, the highly specialised semiconductor distributor of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA, announced availability of the Brushed DC Motor Controller Module (MDL-BDC) and Reference Design Kit (RDK-BDC) of Luminary Micro. 2009 product line up unveiled at Electronica
Hitachi Display Products Group (DPG) has successfully unveiled a series of new TFT display modules due for introduction to the European market. The first showing of the latest display modules to be added to Hitachi’s extensive LCD product line up was announced during Electronica in November. 17" fanless Panel PC
The latest addition to the range of low cost fanless panel PCs from BVM is the PT-170PF, a 17" touch screen unit, a larger version of the popular PT family of 12" and 15" units. Designed for point of sale, point of information and general control applications, the stainless steel front bezel presents an attractive appearance and seals the unit to IP54. The integrated design with the PC housed behind the screen assembly reduces the number of interconnections required by many multi-box solutions, providing a tidy and reliable assembly. Microchip Technology Introduced Serial EEPROMs With Built-in MAC Addresses
Microchip announces a family of serial EEPROM devices with built-in EUI-48™ and EUI-64™ compatible MAC addresses. Designed to work on standard buses, such as SPI, I2C™ and the UNI/O® bus, the devices provide easy and inexpensive access to MAC addresses and feature up to 1.5Kbit of EEPROM that can be used for storing configuration and user settings, or as a scratch-pad area for buffering small amounts of data. | 
